A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien JaprisotOnce upon a time, on a day too dark and chilly for sunbathing, my sister PK and I sat in my living room in St. Pete, telling stories about odd apartment neighbors. PK lives next door to a guy who used to keep his kid’s hamster in a cage outside his apartment, presumably because tenants [...]
My mother told me this when she and my dad were out visiting last week. It was the first time I’d heard this story and I thought it explained a great deal everything: When I was about five years old, I moseyed into my bedroom with an ice cream come. You know the type that come [...]
I learned a long time ago that newspaper stories don’t always flow like wordy liquid from the fingertips. The process is usually … how I do I put it? Painful. As a 16-year-old cub reporter (or as my first editor called me, “a stringer”) I would drive home after covering three-hour town board meetings in [...]
My interview with Yoko Ono ran in Tampa’s Creative Loafing this week. Check it out here. And thanks to everyone who e-mailed and posted questions. I went over the moon when she talked about the day John Lennon learned she wasn’t a virgin. – PS. Illustration by fairy-jeraimi.
LOVE THIS. It’s beautiful and clever, simple and joyful. I wanted to bump Steve-O’s ugly mug down a notch with something Zen and inspirational, and when I saw this stop-motion video on my friend Ricci’s blog, I gasped and said A-HA! I had not heard of Oren Lavie until this afternoon, so thank you Ricci [...]
ABC, you’ve got to be kidding me. I apologize if I’m late to the game here, but after watching The Insider tonight I learned that Steve-O, the jackass (at left) with a lobster clamped to his tongue, was hauled off Dancing With the Stars by an ambulance last week, after injuring his back rehearsing the [...]
10 reasons why I love Ani DiFranco: 1. Her voice is creamy. Seriously. Like vanilla pudding. It’s a beautiful juxtaposition – somewhere between angelic and fierce. If Ani were singing shit about my pug, I’d turn up the volume and sing along. She’s that captivating. 2. Her songwriting is AMAZING. I picture her scratching out [...]
Just called my father, expecting it to be my mother. Since I’m all lazy and easy-like-Sunday morning, I figured I’d sort out this Popple tail thing over the phone. “Hello Mothership.” “(Snort sound) This is your Fathership.” “Oh, Fathership. What’s up with you?” “I’m at 2,000 feet.” “In the plane?” “Yup. Flying over Lake Erie right now. [...]
An ode to my pug’s paws: I haven’t met a dog fanatic who hasn’t expressed joy over their pet’s exquisite paws. My pug’s paws are works of art. The black pads, all circular and button-like, get so rough I want to exfoliate my face with them. They feel like the old upholstery buttons on my parent’s [...]
Mail from my Nana is the best thing on earth. She likes to write me letters on tree bark and toilet paper. Last month I scribbled her a Valentine on a maxi pad. In return she sent me this note with a magazine clipping inside. The note reads: Hello Heidi– Just had to send you [...]
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